David McCord Quotes

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

David McCord

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Up
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• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• Travel teaches as much as books.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Travel
  • Books
  • Teaches

• During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.

  

  Dan Webster
  • School
  • Year
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• I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Focus
  • Coach
  • Much

• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Never
  • Students

• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Use
  • Students
  • Classroom

• I love the most the students with troubled lives.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Love
  • Students
  • Troubled

• Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

  

  Jack Horner
  • Say
  • Students
  • Dinosaurs

• Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Good
  • Help
  • Students

• The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Knowledge
  • Students
  • High School

• The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Men
  • Why
  • Art

• Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Express

• People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Wall
  • Standing
  • Saws

• The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Thoughts
  • Miracles

• I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Christian

• Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out -- either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

  

  Dave McPherson
  • Dream
  • Player
  • Standing

• When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Men
  • Home
  • Clothes

• Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Positive

• Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Clung

• I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Period
  • Sentence
  • Cap

• The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

  

  David McCord
  • Students
  • Teaches
  • Standing